Cyanide Toxicity: A potential threat to animals and humans - Softcover

Avais, Muhammad; Khan, Muhammad Sarwar; Ashraf, Kamran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3845440236 ISBN 13: 9783845440231

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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Cyanide is widely distributed in the ecosystem and has been linked with lethal effects in animals as well as humans. Cyanide toxicity may be the result of intake from food sources, environmental pollution, intentional ingestion, chemical warfare, occupational exposure, homicide, and sometimes through the use of drugs like nitroprusside and laetrile.Cyanide intake has been linked to central nervous system syndromes and thyroid in animals as well as humans. This book covers the following aspects. 1) cyanogenic potential of various sorghum species. 2) cyanide levels in blood samples of cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats feeding on cyanogenic plants. 3)new simple, reliable and inexpensive assay to determine CNֿ levels in blood samples. 4)efficacy of various antidotes against cyanide toxicity. 5) effects of cyanide toxicity on hematological and biochemical panel. 6) postmortem lesions and histopathological changes associated with cyanide toxicity in various organs. 6) alterations in tissue oxygenation and metabolic variables during acute cyanide toxicity.

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Dr. Muhammad Avais is the Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He earned PhD degree in Clinical Medicine. During his PhD research, Dr. Avais studied on various aspects of cyanide toxicity in animals. He also developed a new method to determine cyanide in blood.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3845440236
• ISBN 13: 9783845440231
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
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